I recently had the ethernet ports on my motherboard taken out by when my dsl modem blew so I put in an ethernet card.

When I reinstalled Vector 5,9 Gold the other day, I could see the it was setting up 'Realtek......', the new ethernet card, but I find I have no internet connection when I boot it.

In the other distros I have installed, pclinuxos, arch, pardus, sidux, etc, I found a tool or pgm to set the correct ethernet port. I can't find such a tool in Vector - I've looked at vasmcc, but all it seems to do is ask me if I want to use dhcp and that's it, no opportunity to select ports.

Where in Vector 5.9 can I confirm if the correct ethernet port is being used, and if not, change it?

To add to M0E-lnx's response, if it is possible to disable the built-in network port via the laptop's BIOS, I would suggest doing so. Another thread that may be helpful is this one on the udev way to stop network interfaces from changing, just in case ifconfig returns both the built-in port and the card as being active: http://www.vectorlinux.com/forum2/index.php?topic=979.0

The "ifconfig eth2 up" - "dhcpcd eth2" combination works, but not persistently. I have to run it on each boot. I'll try to check the bios settings and hope that does something, that thread John referenced looks scary to me

The "ifconfig eth2 up" - "dhcpcd eth2" combination works, but not persistently. I have to run it on each boot. I'll try to check the bios settings and hope that does something, that thread John referenced looks scary to me

The bios settings will probably do it, but the Joe howto pointed by John is safe if you want to give it a try You just need the MAC address for your card, you can find it with ifconfig, it is something like " 00:1B:FC:79:B1:21 ".

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